Henry Purcell - Odes

Henry Purcell - Ode à Sainte Cécile & Ode pour l'anniversaire de la Reine Mary

Deller Consort & Stour Festival Chamber Orchestra - Alfred Deller, dir.
Harmonia mundi "Deller Recordings" HM 222 (sleeve) / HMD 222 (lp) [LP]
Harmonia mundi HMU 222 [LP]
Harmonia mundi HM 222 [LP]
Harmonia mundi HM 40 222 [Cass.]
Harmonia mundi "Musique d'Abord" HMA 43 222 [Cass.]
Harmonia mundi "Musique d'Abord" HMA 190 222 [CD]
Musical Heritage Society MHS 3 445 [LP]

Contents:

Henry Purcell: Ode on St. Cecilia's Day (1683) Welcome to the Pleasures

1. Overture
2. Welcome to the Pleasures
3. Here the deities approve & While joys celestial
4. Beauty thou scene of love
5. In a consort of voices

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Henry Purcell: Ode on Queen Mary's Birthday

6. Overture
7. Love's Goddess sure was blind
8. Sweetness of nature
9. Long may she reign
10. May her blest example chase
11. Many such days
12. May she to Heaven late return

Playing time: 20' 44" + 18' 30" = 39' 14" (LP) or 39' 33" (CD).

Performers:
Deller Consort [Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Mark Deller (counter-tenor), Christina Clarke (soprano), Neil Jenkins (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone)] & Stour Music Festival Orchestra [Robert Elliott (harpsichord), Jane Ryan (viola di gamba)] - Alfred Deller, dir.

Recording site and date:
Church of All Saints, Boughton, Alup, Kent, UK [1971 or prior]

Compilation:
Harmonia Mundi "Musique d'abord" HMA 290 030 / 035 [CDx6] Harmonia mundi 30e Anniversaire

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 165-31 (march 1972)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):

Also reissed in compilation Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 8057 / 8059 [CDx3]

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